Opportunities and Crisis Coexist in Perspective of New Trends in Instrumentation

In the first half of the year, in order to ensure that the “Eleventh Five-Year” energy saving target was perfected, the state increased energy conservation and consumption reduction, changed the equipment policies for some industries, and reduced high energy consumption such as thermal power, steel, cement, and petrochemicals. Industry investment, and the implementation of an iron fist policy to eliminate backward production capacity. In the second half of the year, energy conservation and emission reduction will be an important task for the country. Eliminating obsolete production capacity will be more stringent, and the application of instrumentation in these traditional high-energy-consuming industries will be reduced.

With energy conservation and consumption reduction, low-carbon economy, civil production, and strategic emerging industries, restructuring and transformation have become a national long-term national policy, spurring a number of emerging industries such as wind power, nuclear power, Internet of things, smart grid, high-speed rail and rail transit. rapid development. The development of these industries not only brought new opportunities and markets for instrumentation, but also raised higher requirements.

For example, in the aspect of rail transit demand, in the first half of the year, the national railways completed an investment of 271.374 billion yuan, accounting for only 33% of the 823.5 billion yuan for the annual investment plan. This shows that in the second half of this year, railway construction will also invest 552.13 billion yuan, and an average of 92 billion yuan will be completed each month, which will drive the demand for instrumentation.

In terms of energy conservation and environmental protection, the total output value of China's environmental protection industry will reach 880 billion yuan this year, accounting for about 3.4% of the annual GDP of the same period, and the output value of environmental protection equipment will reach 120 billion yuan, accounting for 13.6%. “Catalogue of Environmental Protection Equipment (Products) Encouraged by the Development of the State” explicitly includes coal-fired power plant denitrification equipment, industrial furnace flue gas desulphurization equipment, and electric bag composite dust removal equipment into the encouraged field, and has added a batch of independent intellectual property rights. Higher technological content as a key to encourage development. Enterprises' technological transformation projects that use domestically-made equipment in the catalogue will enjoy the preferential policies for investment credit of corporate income tax; and the depreciation policies for domestic equipment in the company's use list.

As the country's concern for people's livelihood has greatly increased, some needs related to people's livelihood have also been mentioned on the agenda. For example, the demand for instruments and meters related to food safety, drug safety, detection and alarm of accidents, and environmental and climate monitoring also pose new challenges for instrumentation. In Xinjiang alone, 10 million yuan is invested each year to ensure the construction of a food safety system.

Low-carbon economy and instrumentation industry are closely related to the driving role, and its development will inevitably lead to rising demand for instrumentation. According to the research team of the Development and Research Center of the State Council, “Key Industries Adjustment, Transformation and Upgrading”, the output value of the new energy industry is expected to reach 400 billion yuan in the next 3 years; the output value of the environmental protection industry will reach 2 trillion yuan in 2015; the scale of the information network and application market will at least reach Several trillions of yuan; Digital TV terminals and services can drive nearly 2 trillion yuan in output value in the next six years.

Demand drives instrumentation transformation and upgrade

Li Dong, deputy director of the Department of Equipment, said that at present the major technological equipment independent innovation, we must not only grasp major equipment, but also focus on key parts and components, components, large-scale castings and forgings, etc., to focus on the long-term, both main and auxiliary, coordinated development, and completely solve Restrict the bottleneck problem of the development of major technical equipment.

The instrument is of great significance to ensure product quality and standardized production. If something goes wrong at any point in the production process, it will lead to major disasters. Although the total output value of the instrumentation industry only accounts for 4% of the total industrial output value, its impact on the national economy reaches 66%. Instruments and meters are so important, but China's instrumentation industry is still in a relatively weak overall stage, far from meeting the needs of market diversification, resulting in despise domestically produced instruments and contempt for the existence of foreign instruments.

Experts pointed out that the current instrumentation industry is small and the total output value of the measurement control and instrumentation industry is low. Not only is the absolute amount small, but the proportion in the total economy is also very small. The vast majority of companies in the instrumentation industry are SMEs. The industry has 1,887 large-scale and above-scale enterprises, less than 15 of which have annual sales of more than 1 billion yuan, and lacks "flagship" companies with comprehensive strength. Moreover, due to the development of low-cost expansion leading to the abnormal development of the industry, seriously affecting the development of the instrumentation industry.

We are experiencing a change in the industrial structure through technological innovation and a new path of industrialization with Chinese characteristics. The advancement of science and technology and the development of emerging industries have constantly put forward higher and newer requirements for instrumentation. The instrumentation industry must develop the most advanced modern instrumentation from now on, and constantly use new working principles and adopt new materials and new components to develop new instruments.

For example, automation instruments focus on the development of main control system devices and intelligent instrumentation, special and special automation instruments based on fieldbus technology; comprehensively expand service areas, promote digitalization, intelligence and networking of instrumentation systems, and complete automation instrumentation from analog technologies. The transformation of digital technology.

Aim at the future to occupy the highest point of the "heart"

With the development of national economy and high-tech industries, modern instrumentation technology has become China's strategic needs, especially China's deep space exploration, deep sea and deep earth exploration, manned spaceflight, large aircraft, aircraft carrier, nuclear power, high-speed railway, large-scale petrochemical As well as the development of national major projects such as medical and health care, and the development of national economy and people's livelihood, more urgent requirements are placed on the development of modern instrumentation technology.

Looking back at the development of instrumentation in the past 10 years, it is not difficult to see that with the rapid development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of automation, the instrumentation industry is undergoing new changes and new developments—with computers and microprocessors. The technology is the core technology, and the computer, network, system, communication, image display, and automatic control theories are the common key technical foundations, which promotes the upgrading of instrumentation products to intelligent instrumentation and develops into a large series of product groups in the information industry.

Looking forward to the next 10 years, a higher degree of intelligence should include a series of functions such as understanding, reasoning, judgment, and analysis. It is a combination of numerical, logical, and knowledge analysis. The sign of intelligence is the expression and application of knowledge. The use of new physics effects and high-tech and their achievements to develop new high-sensitivity, high stability, strong anti-interference ability sensor technology and test instrumentation. With the further introduction and penetration of sensor technology, system integration technology, intelligent control technology, human-machine interface technology, virtual technology, and reliability technology, instrumentation products will quickly become intelligent, miniaturized, networked, and virtualized. Step forward.

Due to the full recognition of the urgency and development trend of future instrumentation, the country has formulated a strategic goal for the development of instrumentation: In the next 10 to 15 years, it will make full use of China's rapid economic development and huge market advantages, and vigorously promote new technologies and processes. Application research in instrumentation, mastering key technologies such as design and production processes of various instruments and meters, reducing the gap between the overall level of China's instrumentation industry and the international level to 3 to 5 years, and about 30% of the products reaching the international advanced level in the same period , The supporting capacity of domestic instruments and meters in large projects reached more than 85%, and occupied more than 75% of the domestic market demand. Therefore, it is hoped that the "builders" of instrumentation will grasp the development opportunities and jointly welcome the spring of Chinese instrumentation!